Bracing for Armageddon : Why Civil Defense Never Worked

Name: Bracing for Armageddon
Brand: Oxford University Press Inc
SKU: 9780195183191
Price: 12100 KES
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ISBN: 9780195183191

by Dee ) Garrison

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Format Hardback

ISBN-10 0195183193

ISBN-13 9780195183191

Publisher Oxford University Press Inc

Imprint Oxford University Press Inc

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Apr 27th, 2006

Print length 256 Pages

Weight 554 grams

Dimensions 16.60 x 24.10 x 1.70 cms

Product Classification: History of the Americas 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 Civil defence

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Presents a survey of the US government's civil defense plans from World War II. This book argues that the purpose of federal civil defense was to legitimize deterrence policy and the arms race through false assurances to the masses that they could survive nuclear war and to hide the astronomical expenses of programs to protect the political elite.

This timely book is a concise survey of the U.S. government''s civil defense plans from World War II to the present, including Cold War detonations, Reagan-era Star Wars, and contemporary issues of homeland security. Garrison argues that the true purpose of federal civil defense was to legitimize deterrence policy and the arms race through false assurances to the masses that they could survive nuclear war and to hide the astronomical expenses of programs to protect the political elite. In examining the popular reaction to civil expense plans, she reveals how the public, recognizing the suicidal nature of nuclear war, ridiculed and rejected civil defense, crippling plans for its implementation.

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